Fincher Battling Over Budget on Netflix/Kevin Spacey Series

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The Oscar-nominated director wants a bigger budget for two 13-episode seasons of House of Cards.

By Matt Fowler

THR is reporting that Media Rights Capital (The Life & Times of Tim, The Ricky Gervais Show) and Oscar-nominated director David Fincher (The Social Network) are currently at odds over the budget for the Netflix original series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

We reported on House of Cards a year ago when Netflix, as part of their new venture to get into original programming, brought Fincher on board to adapt the 1990 U.K. miniseries, House of Cards, into two 13-episode seasons, with a price tag for the 26 episodes being somewhere over 100 million. Now "friction" has developed between independent studio MRC and Fincher, who is directing the first two episodes as well as serving as the executive producer, over the price tag. Fincher wants more money added to the budget and sources told the Reporter that he's willing to walk away from the entire project if he doesn't get it.

MRC, however, denies that there's any battling going on. "Everything's fine and moving ahead," an MRC rep told the Reporter.